On this

episode of Newt's world, the election cycle is clearly beginning.

And this Monday, January 15th, the Iowa Caucus kicks it all off.

A historic pattern that has been around for a while.

And then of course is followed by the New Hampshire primary.

And then it's going to be wild and willing for a brief

period of time. I thought it'd be fun to share with you some thinking about it. I've been involved in the Iowa Caucus a number of times I ran of course myself for president.

In Clisten I spent a lot of time in Iowa.

Clisto went to college at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.

We have many friends from that state, but in addition I was campaigning in the late 80s for Jack Kemp in Iowa and have a long relationship with former Speaker of the House, Linda Uphmeyer,

and many of the Iowa Republicans.

So I feel very comfortable sharing with you a little bit about the Iowa Caucus.

The important thing to remember about a Caucus is you have to actually go somewhere and stay.

In a primary, you vote and it's over.

It takes three minutes, five minutes, ten minutes.

In a caucus, everybody gathers at a living room or a fire department or a church or a school cafeteria. I think there are about 1900 sites in Iowa Monday night and

you get together and you actually group up so that there will be a sort of a Haley group and there will be a desanist group and a Ramaswami group and a Trump group and then each side gets to make a pitch. So the campaign is one of the big

challenges we had when we ran in 2012 was you have to find a spokesperson in every one of

those precincts who will get up and say,

I am for my candidate.

Here's why I'm for my candidate.

So that's the beginning of the process.

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